Anna Nerkagi

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Anna Pavlovna Nerkagi is a Nenets writer, novelist, and social activist of the Nenets people in Siberia, writing in the Russian language.

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Biography

Anna Pavlovna Nerkagi [1] was born on February 15, 1951, on the Yamal Peninsula, near the Kara Sea coast in West Siberia, Russia. [2] In 1958, at the age of six, she was removed from her parents by the Soviet authorities and forced to live in a boarding school, where the indigenous languages and native culture were banned. [2] She was only allowed to visit her parents during holidays. [1] In 1974, she graduated from the Geology Institute at Tyumen Technical University. [1]

Nerkagi debuted as a writer with the autobiographic Aniko of the Nogo clan in 1977. [3] She writes in the Russian language. [4] In 1978, known for publishing Aniko, she became a member of the Writer's Union. [1] She left Tyumen in 1980 and returned to the nomadic way of life in the Yamal Peninsula, where she lives with her husband. [1] In 1990, she started the Tundra School for Nenets Children. [2] She currently lives and works near the village Laborovaya in the Yamal tundra, educating Nenets children. [3]

In 2012, a documentary film about Nerkagi's life, directed by Ekaterina Golovnya, won the Grand Prix at the Radonezh film festival in Russia. [5]

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  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Hardy Aiken, Susan (1994). Dialogues. Exsoviet and American Women (Digitized 28 Feb 2008 ed.). University of Michigan: Duke University Press. pp. 285–311. ISBN   9780822313755 . Retrieved 19 August 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 Kasten, Erich; de Graaf, Tjeerd (2013). Sustaining Indigenous Knowledge: Learning Tools and Community Initiatives for Preserving Endangered Languages and Local Cultural Heritage. BoD – Books on Demand. p. 186. ISBN   9783942883122.
  3. 1 2 3 Alexander Vaschenko; Claude Clayton Smith; N. Scott Momaday. The Way of Kinship: An Anthology of Native Siberian Literature. University of Minnesota Press. pp. 200–201. ISBN   9781452915463.
  4. ↑ Thibaudat, Jean-Pierre (7 August 1998). "Voyage chez les Nénètses de Sibérie (5)". Libération (in French). Retrieved 19 August 2016.
  5. ↑ Otroshenko, Anastasia (5 February 2015). "Анна Неркаги: научиться любить повседневность" (in Russian). miloserdie.ru. Retrieved 19 August 2016.
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